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《FREEFALL Alexander Treves》

Publication: Zen Photo Gallery

Size: 220mm x 202mm x19mm

Publication year: 2022

Number of pages: 160pp

Language : English

Condition: B

Hardcover, signed. Slight red mark on bottom right corner of cover. Almost new condition.

Hardcover, signed. Faint traces of red color on bottom right of cover. In fairly new condition.

Content

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The book features black and white photographs of refugees and other displaced people from over 20 countries, including camps in the jungles of Burma, the Greek-Macedonian border, the aftermath of conflicts in Sri Lanka and the Philippines, people fleeing continuing turmoil in the Middle East, people under torture, and children who value education as a path to a brighter future.

Additionally, there are three colour sections, printed on different papers and with different aesthetics, reflecting the disabilities that afflict many of the people featured in the book, whilst recognising the risks of a photographer in a privileged position representing the challenges of others in black and white.

The wide range of locations filmed also allows the viewer to get a broader perspective on the scale of this catastrophe, unlike Western media which tends to approach it only in terms of the impact that refugees and immigrants have on wealthy countries.The book also includes testimonies from refugees throughout the book, attempting to give voice to those filmed.

The hardback cover highlights the scars of a tortured refugee, and the book includes a postcard insert that tells the story of the latest cause of displacement: Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Sadly, humans are prone to repeating the same mistakes.

All proceeds from the book will be donated to charities helping refugees.

(Publisher's description)

The photobook “Freefall” by Alexander Treves concerns itself with the growing number of refugees around the world. In black-and-separated photographs (as well as a section in color at the back of the book), Treves documents refugees and displaced people whose everyday lives were upended by war, violent conflicts and persecution.

“In 2010 the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated that around 30 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced by conflict, violence and persecution. By 2021 that number had grown to over 84 million, including 35 million children.”

Treves traveled to twenty countries around the world to photograph affected people and the environments in which they live, from Rohingya in Kuala Lumpur to people in camps in the Burmese jungle, the conflict in Sri Lanka, Iranian dissidents, displaced people in the Philippines, people suffering from conflicts in Sri Lanka or waiting at the closed border between Greece and Macedonia.

Treves pays attention to portray the individual people in his book and the hardships they suffer. Each image is subtitled with contextualizing information about the subject and the place, and the photographs are interspersed with testimony from refugees and torture survivors, drawing further attention to the atrocious crimes taking place and, given the large geographic diversity, the sheer scale of the situation.

“[E]ach book has an inserted postcard which addresses the latest cause of widespread displacement - Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an event which took place after the book design was complete but before publication. Sadly, humans keep repeating the same mistakes.”

The proceeds from the book sales are donated to charities which assist refugees.

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